The RoanokeSlant

This file is a personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.com .......The Google Cookie Notice is required by the EU! So much for US Sovereignty!

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

ObamaCare Looks Like The Spanish Hi-Speed Train Wreck

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Roanoke Times, 7-31-2013, Pg
16: Delayed part of health law is costly.The sudden decision to delay fines for larger employers will cost the
government $10 BILLION.

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No that’s not it!It will cost the TAXPAYERS $10 BILLION plus
all the fraud and abuse because individuals will be getting big “subsidies”
based on NO VERIFIABLE DATA to confirm they are entitled to this TAXPAYER
money!

And why does all the BAD
ObamaCare news show up in small print on the back page?

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Forbes, 7-18-2013 (no where
to be found in the Roanoke Times)

The NY Times Tries -- And
Fails -- To Protect Obamacare From Health Insurance 'Rate Shock'

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And Even In Over-Regulated WashingtonState, Obamacare Will Increase
Individual Health Insurance Premiums By 34-80%

Monday, July 29, 2013

NBC Launches Hillary’s 2016 Campaign For Free

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Roanoke Times, 7-28-2013, Pg 2: NBC to air miniseries about
Hillary Clinton
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What a great unreported campaign kick-off gift.A miniseries worth tens of millions of
dollars as a good-will offering to their queen.
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And to think that the liberal media in Virginia thinks the gift of a Rolex watch is
a criminal deal!Talk about keeping
things in perspective!
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Sure makes a mockery of MSNBC’s constant harangue about
FoxNews and Conservative Talk-Radio being unfair.-
Actually we don’t need a miniseries to find out about Hillary.We already know all we need to know about
this person.
-What Difference Does It Make?
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Obama, Ho Chi Minh and Thomas Jefferson?

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What American, no less a president, would equate a murderous
dictator and perpetrator of mass executions of non-combatant dissenters and
adversaries with our Thomas Jefferson?The person who did
that at a public meeting in Viet
Nam was Barack Obama!

Our Phony And Dysfunctional President

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Roanoke Times, 7-25-2013, Pg
6: Obama at KnoxCollege says the economy is his priority
and Congress must focus more on it.

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What a joyful one-hour-plus
rerun of old worn-out obsolete campaign speeches. -Not mentioned in the article
is the most memorable new Obama phrase: “Phony Scandals”.And prey tell which of these Scandals are
Phony or Bogus or Made-up?

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BenghaziGate: The Benghazi
Malfeasance (before, during, after and ongoing)
IRSGate: The IRS abusing
the power to harass Conservatives
APGate: The
“Justice Dept.” AP & Fox phone & data hacking and AG Holder’s lies to
Congress as part of the cover-up

Current polls are clearly
showing that Obama’s extended trips to Europe, Africa and Martha’s
Vineyard are not fooling the people who see a non-leader refusing
to address the real core problems of the Country and his Administration.

Redirection to Trayvon,
Stand Your Ground and Racism are not working as people watch both the Domestic
and Foreign affairs of State stagnate and/or deteriorate.

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Blaming Bush and Congress
has also now run their course as the people look at an impotent politician who
doesn’t have a clue how to lead.He is
incapable of even allowing the Keystone Pipe Line to proceed – how pathetic is
that!

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For a partial list of
Republican House Passed Bills, that specifically address growing jobs and the economy,
that Democrat Senate Leader Reid will not bring to the floor for debate and
vote--- Click This Link and Note The
Date:

A Weiner For NYC Mayor

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As a follow-up to his prior “apologies” for “sexting”
himself to women, Anthony Weiner is before the press again “apologizing” for more
gross photos sent to young women.

This time, the leading candidate for NYC Mayor, had his wife
standing with him explaining to the world that he’s really a nice guy – he just
has this little thing about taking lewd pictures of himself and sending them to
young women.
As any Madison Ave advertising executive will tell you: "It pays to advertise"!
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Of particular interest is that “The Wife” is a former close
associate of none other than Hillary Clinton!Talk about a weird coincidence, or perhaps not? At any rate, NYC deserves a Weiner for Mayor
and a new icon to replace the EmpireStateBuilding.It will all work out in the end.
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And not to be left out of the limelight, Elliot Spitzer,
former NY AG and Governor, who kept very busy keeping high-end prostitutes in business,
is now running for NYC controller.Apparently
his vast experience funding his prostitute-obsession makes him uniquely
qualified to handle NYC finances that share many similar attributes.
Yet another highly qualified Democrat that NYC well deserves.
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-This New York
Weiner’s Not Kosher

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Obama The Consummate Hypocrite On Race And Guns

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Click-On YouTube video for a
no-holds-bared O'Reilly's assessment of Obama’s hypocritical public positions on American
Race Issues and the core causes that lie behind the 73% of black babies born
out of wedlock; young black males committing ten times as much violent crime as whites and Hispanics combined; the absence of a strong viable family support system and the
out-of-control violence in our inner cities, none of which Obama chooses to
address:

To add insult to injury
Obama’s bait-and-switch public pronouncements about Florida’s “Stand Your Ground Laws”, that
were not involved in the Martin/Zimmerman case, stands as a Gross Example of
Obama’s Race and Gun Baiting.

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Obama, as a State Senator, co-sponsored an Illinois Law to strengthen their
“Stand Your Ground Law” – talk about the obscene hypocrisy of a President of
The United States!

Has this man no personal
integrity?Then again – he’s a product
of Chicago Politics!

Roanoke Times Editors Chagrined Over Debate Whopper

Wow
I thought!The RT Editors picked up on
McAuliffe’s gross misstatement of a report on allegations that Cuccinelli
violated conflict-of-interest laws and the RT Editors were “defending”
Cuccinelli.Not so fast!Next item says “The Democrat misrepresents a prosecutor’s
report on Cuccinelli and clouds a legitimate campaign issue.”

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In
other words, “we’re” not chagrined that McAuliffe “misstated” the facts.We’re upset because he did it “badly”.He should have called the RT and “we” would
have helped him with his debating and language skills.

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In
reflection, during the last Presidential debate, a significant liberal
journalist was the moderator and jumped into a debate item (the Benghazi
Radical Muslim Terrorist Attack) and immediately helped Obama through what was
clearly not only a “Whopper” but a gross lie and cover-up.

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Perhaps
if an RT Editor were at the Homestead
as a debate moderator, he/she could have jumped right in and saved the day for
McAuliffe!

What
a great opportunity --- Missed!

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In
reflection, have the RT Editors or reporters found anything negative to say
about McAuliffe’s actions, performance, close-associates, fund raising?Anything at all?

Monday, July 22, 2013

Detroit’s Economic Cancer: It’s Time To Call Hospice

The liberal media apparently
is looking for every possible way to keep the Obama-Holder-Sharpton racial
drums beating.Obama says he could have
been Treyvon IF he had waited in a dark alley and then jumped upon a “White-Hispanic”
man, pummeled him to the ground, slammed his head on the concrete and just
before the “White-Hispanic” fell unconscious – he pulled out his legal-gun and fired “in
self-defense”!All this because of
racism and that darn stand-you-ground law; neither of which had anything to do with Zimmerman!http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/07/zimmerman-not-guilty-of-all-charges.html

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This article claims that a
primary root of the collapse of Detroit
is also racism.Apparently not 50 years of Democrat-government and Union malfeasance in running down both the city and the
auto industries.The real root cause was
massive government and union give a-ways of money and benefits that robbed
future generations of jobs and opportunities.

This is by definition what
Democrat Politicians and Unions do!

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This same pattern is happening
to our Country with $16+ TRILLION of debt and huge unemployment and the stifling of economic
growth and a major increasing tax burden on a shrinking base of our population.Something about “The Golden Goose”!

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Liberal Media Glamorizing Terrorists Again

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Rolling Stone has joined other left-wing progressive media
in portraying the Boston Bomber as an “idyllic” youngster on the cover of their
rag.

Who could possible believe that this choir-boy did anything
bad no less mass murder?
Who could possibly vote for his death sentence?Hasn't Rolling Stone hear of Radical Muslim Terrorists?Failed by his family? Really! How Sad!-
Reminds one of the 1800’s poem:Little Willie
Little Willie hung his sister
She was dead before we missed her
Willie’s always up to tricks
Ain’t he cute – he’s only six
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The Liberal’s advertising Picture:

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The Reality Picture:
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Why would any American sell this garbage rag?
Why would any American buy this garbage rag?
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It's time for 'Journalists' to Discover Journalism

“Will the last honest, ethical, and completely
professional journalist please turn out the lights? The pretense of an
objective mainstream media is long over.

I was recently speaking with
two editors from top-10 newspapers who by their own admission see the world
from different ends of the political spectrum and yet both were bemoaning the
state of their profession.

One — a bit right-of-center
— complained how more and more reporters and editors are putting their ideology
before their duties as journalists and skewing stories and "news"
accounts to reflect or enhance that ideology.

The other — a bit
left-of-center — mentioned how completely unfair it was that conservatives are
purposely shut out of consideration for Pulitzer and Nobel prizes while
admitting his paper refuses to report on that unassailable reality because of
its own bias.

I have often said that human
nature dictates that people love to embrace the truth right up until the moment
it reflects poorly upon themselves or their cause. When journalists and editors
deliberately ignore — or even work to discredit — the truth, then all of us pay
a price no matter which party, cause, or issue we support.

It seems almost everything
now in mainstream journalism and the media is viewed through an ideological
prism. More often than not, a prism only admitting and spreading a liberal
light.

What happened to journalists
and editors simply doing their jobs and following only the facts to their
natural conclusions? What happened to talking to both sides in a contentious or
highly controversial issue and then doing some actual investigating to see
which — if any — side was closer to the truth?

What happened to the
hard-boiled city editors as played by Clark Gable in the movie "Teacher's
Pet" who believed the only job of a journalist was to find out
"who, what, when, where, and why," and leave all personal feelings
and bias out of the reporting?

The betrayal of journalistic
ethics is sadly on display every day. If it wasn't so serious and potentially
damaging to our nation and our future, it would be laughable in its extreme.

Every single day we can
read, watch, or listen to "journalists" saying: "Some on the
right are claiming that Obamacare is falling apart, will have a negative impact
on medical care, and will bankrupt our nation; some on the right are claiming
that public-employee pensions are unsustainable and are outright destroying the
budgets and services offered by various cities, counties and states and are
most adversely hurting the poor; some on the right are claiming that the
negative effects of global warming have been grossly exaggerated and that the
'greening' of our nation is a detriment to our citizens; some on the right are
claiming that well over ninety percent of our college and university professors
lean left-of-center and advocate discrimination against conservative or
faith-based professors while indoctrinating students with only their approved
ideology."

I have an idea. Instead of
these journalists "claiming some on the right" are making these
charges, why don't they actually get out of the liberal echo chamber and simply
do some investigative reporting and then write on where those facts — and only
the facts — take them?

Surely there must be some ethical and professional
journalists and editors out there still willing to squash bias and report on the
"who, what, when, where, and why," no matter where it leads them.”

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Douglas MacKinnon is a
former White House and Pentagon official and author of the memoir "Rolling
Pennies In The Dark" (Simon & Schuster, 2012).

Zimmerman: NOT GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES!

With those words Obama
launched a Racist-Legal-Jihad against George Zimmerman and anyone who got in
the way of this Racial “Lynch Mob”.

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The prosecutions case
resulted in almost all their witnesses supporting the defense!

There was no compelling case
against Zimmerman! Ever!

This was simple self-defense
pure and simple!

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Even before the defense
started their portion of the case it was clear that the Obama-Holder-Sharpton
Jihad was purely a Racist effort to fan the flames that they have shown to be so
good at promoting.

Talk about abusing the
Office of The President of the United
States!

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Fortunately for justice, the
jury was not intimidated by Obama-Holden-Sharpton and their nasty Lynch-mob minions that
surrounded the court house.

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The only question now is who
will be the next target of this vicious Trifecta from Hell?

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Obama Marginalizes Your Safety At Work

Suit based on Employer not
doing a comprehensive criminal background check.

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This large detailed
description of the crime highlighting the suit’s focus that the employer did
not conduct an adequate background check that ostensibly would have discovered and
disqualified the attacker from employment.

In other words: the sex
attack was the employers fault and not the man!

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All this without one word about Obama’s current jihad
against employers who utilize background checks for employment decisions!

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Refueling Interstate I-73 At Elm Street

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Roanoke Times, 7-9-2013, Pg 13: Editorial:Refueling Interstate 73: “Readers” have not
given up hope for the dormant interstate project (I73 Through Downtown
Roanoke), and we join them in a desire for an economic boost.

-Roanoke
is on a roll!A fifteen million dollar space station crash-landed
downtown and they call it a museum.Sixty-five million dollars spent on so called “flood control” that is
primarily an incredibly expensive bike path when it’s not raining.And now let’s bring I-73 right through
downtown Roanoke
because we don’t have enough traffic, pollution, noise and accidents.
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Have we not noticed that other communities ensure that
interstates do NOT come downtown?Are
there not by-passes for Danville, Martinsville, Lynchburg
and most other “thoughtful” cities?And
those who don’t have by-passes are working diligently trying to get one!
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And who are these “readers” who pine for this
albatross?What’s their world-view of
how to help Roanoke?
The good news for Roanoke
is one word:CARILLION!
They are bringing in good paying long term jobs and
infrastructure.
They are the new shining star of the star city.
Focus on assisting their requirements and stop promoting
negative projects.
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-http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/01/roanoke-looking-more-like-lost-colony.html
-http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/07/heavy-flooding-in-roanoke-so-much-for.html
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Thursday, July 04, 2013

July 4th 2013

-“The celebration of the
Declaration of Independence Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and
June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most
cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's
most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and
hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was
not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke
and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson
did was to summarize this philosophy in "self-evident truths" and set
forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the
world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country.”

“If you like your health
care plan, you can keep it. No one is going to take that away from you.” If you
had a nickel for every time Barack Obama made that promise during his campaign
to get his health care law passed, you’d have enough to buy coverage in California. And you’ll
need it if your current carrier is United Healthcare.

The nation's largest health
insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., is leaving California's individual health insurance
market, the second major company to exit in advance of major changes under the
Affordable Care Act.

The Obama administration
announced Tuesday that it is delaying a major provision in the health care
overhaul, putting off until 2015 a requirement that many employers offer health
insurance.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., a critic of the law, seized on the delay as a
"clear admission" that the law is "unaffordable, unworkable and
unpopular."

"It's also a cynical
political ploy to delay the coming train wreck associated with ObamaCare until
after the 2014 elections," he said

“An Email by Mann that referred to a “statistical trick” in
his research was among documents stolen from a British university in 2009.Global warming skeptics have used some of the
documents to argue that climate change research has been manipulated.Multiple inquiries have produced no findings
that Mann manipulated data.”-

Of course there has been no evidence!There has been an FOIA stonewall preventing
the public, who paid for this “research” from seeing anything!Just like there was no “evidence” the Nixon
Whitehouse was involved in the WaterGate break-in either!

-Totally and conveniently omitted were the public
pronouncements by the Editors of the Roanoke Times that the FOIA law and
process should be followed and the materials made public so that we can all see
the facts and judge for ourselves:Roanoke Times Finally Supports The FOIA
Process For All

What’s a Girl To Do?

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There but by the Grace of God, goes my Granddaughter!
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Girl buys water, spends night in jailhttp://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/uva-girl-water-beer-jail-181104442.html
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Felony charges were dropped on Thursday against a
20-year-old University
of Virginia student who
says she panicked when undercover agents from the state's Alcohol Beverage
Control division mistook her water purchase for beer.
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This is a very disturbing story given the car-jackings and
crimes against young women.
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Many law-enforcement agencies have advised drivers not to
stop for “plain clothes persons driving unmarked cars”.
Their advice: drive safely to the nearest police station
while calling 911 if possible.
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And all this hysteria and trauma over what they “thought”
was a six-pack of beer!
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These Alcohol-Cops need to think about how they want police
to interact with their sisters, wives and daughters on the streets at night!
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Of all the climate
scientists to drag into the politics of global warming and climate change one
could hardly do worse than Michael Mann.

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Michael Mann is the “Real
Denier” in the global warming controversy!

He is denying the taxpayers
who funded his “work” at UVA from seeing that “work”!

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To add insult to injury, UVA
has spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars fighting Freedom Of
Information FOIA requests for release of the taxpayer funded “global warming research”
activities of Michael Mann and his associates at UVA.

The malfeasance of the UVA
administration in keeping the public, who paid for this Mann activity, from
seeing this “work”, is unconscionable.

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What is Mann hiding?Isn’t sharing and debating research at the
very fundamental heart of “The Scientific Method”?

This clearly is not his
personal intellectual property!

Why is he continuing the
ClimateGate Cover-up?

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Even the Editors of the
Roanoke Times publically declared that the FOIA laws and processes should be
followed and the material made public in this case.